Honduras Coup - Day 65 - August 31, 2009

Canadian Delegation in Support of the Resistance Travels to HondurasBy hondurasoye.wordpress.com : August 31, 2009
In response to this intensified repression by the de facto military regime of Roberto Micheletti against the peaceful resistance movement in Honduras, the Latin American Solidarity Network (LASN) is sending a delegation to Honduras from Aug 27- Sept 7th.

Honduras: Out of the Vortex, Into the VacuumBy Tom Loudon - truthout.org : August 31, 2009
After returning from an intense two weeks of accompanying international delegations in Honduras, I am just beginning to realize what a vortex we were in. Back in the United States, with a few days of hindsight, I realize that the sustained repression we witnessed, culminating with an unprovoked attack on Wednesday, August 12, with hundreds of people beaten up, wounded, hospitalized, jailed and missing - had socked a powerful punch.

Advice for Hillary ClintonBy hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com : August 31, 2009
My advice to Hillary Clinton is to go ahead and sign the determination that this has been a military coup. Micheletti made it clear in countless interviews earlier this month that he believes that because you have not yet imposed sanctions, he has your tacit approval to continue.

Elections, Constitutions, and Laws: how "obligatory" is voting?By hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com : August 31, 2009
As the resistance calls for non-participation in the November elections, signs accumulate that this tactic is of concern to the regime, no matter how much they say otherwise. There are intimations that of intentions to prosecute people for not participating in the election or for encouraging others not to do so.

Scenes of Resistance in HondurasBy Joseph Shansky - counterpunch.org : August 31, 2009
The following is a reflection on time spent in and around Tegucigalpa during two critical weeks in August.

A School of Leaders in HondurasBy Al Giordano - narconews.com : August 31, 2009
Scratch the surface of the de facto Honduran coup regime and its architects can't help but demonstrate, again and again, that one of its unspoken reasons to exist is their unbridled racism toward considerable sectors of the national and international community. The July comment by its make-believe "foreign minister" that referred to US President Barack Obama as "that little nigger" was not an isolated gaffe: Coup "president" Roberto Micheletti has additionally installed the country's most infamously bigoted politician, Rafael Pineda Ponce, as his very own chief of staff.

Honduras, Military Escalation Test, ChavezBy insidecostarica.com : August 31, 2009
The coup in Honduras was a test for a military escalation, which is continuously increased and boosted, with the new US military bases in Colombia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned on Sunday.

Hondurans to Extend Their StruggleBy cadenagramonte.cubaweb.cu : August 31, 2009
The National Front against the Coup d' Etat in Honduras announced it would strengthen the resistance structures, even in the farthest corners of the country, to restore democracy.

Honduran Constitutional Assembly Would Be a StepToward the Emancipation of WomenBy Laura Carlsen - americasmexico.blogspot.com : August 31, 2009
How are women included in the process? If I were a Honduran woman, why would I fight for the new constitutional assembly? / First, it means confronting a dictatorship, a dictatorship based on different forms of domination. We have been saying all along that it is not just predatory capitalism, not just racism that has increased under this dictatorship, but also patriarchy. So, we feel that fighting against this dictatorship is to go beyond that toward a more strategic vision. In the long term, it is the fight for our country.

The Resurgence of US Interventionism in Latin AmericaBy Amy Oyler - zmag.org : August 31, 2009
The US involvement in the coup in Honduras speaks to the larger picture of our placement in all of Latin America. The policy that the US has had with Latin America has been pushed aside in recent years (with the exception of Venezuela, and increased NED funding to "alternative political parties" in Bolivia), but now it is apparent that while we are distracted with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, that the Obama administration seeks to continue our long standing policy of directing politics on another continent, at the expense of human rights, justice, and sovereignty.

United States Involvement in the Coup in HondurasBy Karine Walsh - dissidentvoice.org : August 31, 2009
The coup in Honduras was not only directed against President Manuel Zelaya and the Honduran people, but it especially targeted the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean which had chosen to join ALBA, an economic, social and political alliance as an alternative to U.S. dominated alliances.

Human rights and amnesty in HondurasBy weeksnotice.blogspot.com : August 31, 2009
Roberto Micheletti now has reversed him (yet again) and now says Mel Zelaya cannot have an amnesty. He also seems to forget that at other times he has said Congress must make that decision, rather than him, or that other times he has been open to the idea (though, in all fairness, at other times he has also been closed to the idea).

The Differences Between a Leader and a BossBy Pedro Brizuela - narconews.com : August 31, 2009
It has long been said that a leader isn't born, but made. The emergence of leadership is a social phenomenon since it surges from the heart of the people in the heat of popular struggles for the most heartfelt needs of the population. Leaderships comes from study and from the spirit that comes from addressing the public's needs.

Honduras' coup must not standBy Robert White and Glenn Hurowitz - latimes.com : August 31, 2009
When Honduran soldiers entered democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya's bedroom and packed him off in his pajamas at gunpoint to exile this summer, the politicians and industrialists who backed the ouster had confidence that President Obama wouldn't touch them. Even though the United States maintains 600 troops in Honduras, they thought they could pull off the first successful military coup in Latin America since the end of the Cold War. So far, they're right: The Honduran junta's intransigence in negotiations to restore democracy has been rewarded with U.S. complacency, setting an extremely dangerous precedent for other areas of the world. Unexpectedly, in the age of Obama, democracy is in retreat.

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